Why not burn all 3 in one day?

 8:35 am - Sunday - February 15th - TWW - 38° F, humidity 41%, cloud cover 75%, wind 9 mph out of the southeast.....very cloudy today with a forecast high of 56° F.  The view this morning.....

....and on this date in 2010 TLE and I were camping at Rancho Jurupa Regional Park in our 1982 Newell....

.....within a year (02/01/11) we would be workamping there, and living full time in the Newell.  I guess that means we've living full time in the Newell for 15 years!

We need light winds, or no wind at all to do burn piles here.  It's not a law, or anything, but prudence dictates that if we don't want a forest fire here at TWW we should use caution, and not burn on windy days, right?  Well, Saturday was a windless day until mid afternoon, so we decided we should light those three burn piles (one at time) around 10 am.  Before we lit anything we ran about 200 feet of hose out to the three burn piles to be sure we had adequate water to douse any unexpected fires outside of the burn areas, then we lit the first burn pile....

The first burn pile

The 2nd burn pile

The 3rd burn pile...the biggest of them all

We used the opportunity to burn a lot of old, rotten wood, too

.....the final burn pile, the largest of them all, was just about burned down to ashes by 2:30 pm, so about 4.5 hours for all three burn piles.  Once they were down to ashes we raked out the ashes, then doused each pile heavily with water to be sure hey were "out".

Once we were sure all the burning coals were extinguished we headed inside for an hour break before returning to coil up the numerous water hoses we had employed, and then put our tools away (rock rakes and shovels).  We spent the balance of the afternoon watching the AT&T Pebble Beach Invitational (golf) where they are having some of the weather headed our way.  We had planned a sunset fire, but by the time the afternoon breezes had died down it was after 6 pm, and too late to get a fire going, however, we did walk out and observe the sunset for a few minutes....

.....thanks for stopping by!